Enterprise Class Storage: the new rule of three

Today’s modern storage solutions follow the old fashioned rule of three. Dominated by three words: Software-Defined Storage.

Learn about the trifecta of benefits from efficiency to flexibility to financial responsibility by joining Rolf Versluis, CTO at Adcap, a leading reseller in the SouthEast and Michael Letschin, Director of Products at Nexenta as they discuss the trends and use cases for Software-Defined storage and their play with the major virtualization vendors.

Attend to learn more about:
- What is the rule of three?
- Defining the world of SDx - software only, hyper-converged or traditional
- What are the business advantages of SDS
- How SDS can be integrated in your virtual environment
- Deployment options
- Examples of SDS deployment architectures

Is it worth it for companies to spend millions of dollars a year on software that can't keep up with constantly evolving open source software? What are the advantages and disadvantages to keeping enterprise licenses and how secure is open source software really?

Join Data Society CEO, Merav Yuravlivker, as she goes over the software trends in the data science space and where big companies are headed in 2017 and beyond.

About the speaker: Merav Yuravlivker is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Society. She has over 10 years of experience in instructional design, training, and teaching. Merav has helped bring new insights to businesses and move their organizations forward through implementing data analytics strategies and training. Merav manages all product development and instructional design for Data Society and heads all consulting projects related to the education sector. She is passionate about increasing data science knowledge from the executive level to the analyst level.

Technology companies are taking over. The thinking, design and language are now different. This presentation will focus on the trends of modern EA from the context of survival in a real sense. It is no longer about aligning Technology with the business, Technology is the business.
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BIO: Andrew Bird wants to live in a world where business and IT work as one, and he’s on a mission to bring the two seamlessly together. Visionary enterprise architect. Strategic leader. He’s different. He simplifies. He brings order. He tells clients not just the ‘what’, but the ‘how’. He finds the business within a business. Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, Juval Lowy, extols his “unique combination of leadership, business acumen and interpersonal skills.” His engagements - 100+ projects, totalling over a £billion so far … prove the point. When he isn’t using his ‘past life’ experience as CTO, CIO and Head of Architecture to advise governments, multi-nationals, defence contractors, arts and media organisations, healthcare groups and financial institutions, Andrew is committed to ending the drought of good software architects. Having been mentored by some of the best in the business, he’s now sharing his knowledge with the next generation of software engineers.

Windows 10 can be central to digital transformation of your workplace by improving workforce productivity, collaboration and innovation, while at the same time ensuring security of your networks, infrastructure, data storage and archives in the cloud.

3. Shifting from a technology-centric to a people-centric model that puts your users first.

Digital transformation is a journey, and like all journeys you want to have a trusted guide along the way. HPE Enterprise Services and Microsoft share a common vision for how cloud, enterprise mobility, and technology industry solutions can be applied to deliver breakthroughs for our clients.

Whether they are ready for it or not, IT Operations teams have the Internet of Things, including BYOD devices such as smart watches, added to their list of responsibilities. With employees bringing in potentially compromised devices, it's time for enterprise IT to understand their environment and not just tick the compliance box. On the other hand, IoT poses an opportunity for IT organizations to add significant value to the business by providing real-time operational intelligence. A new monitoring approach called wire data analytics analyzes communications on the network to extract valuable IoT security, performance, and even operations data—and requires no agents!

Hyper-converged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations. While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers. There are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyper-converged systems to realize their promise. During this session you will learn:

• What are hyper-converged systems?
• What challenges do they pose?
• What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
• About a solution that helps integrate hyper-converged systems with existing SANs

We all are aware of the challenges enterprises are having with growing data and silo’d data stores. Businesses are not able to make reliable decisions with un-trusted data and on top of that, they don’t have access to all data within and outside their enterprise to stay ahead of the competition and make key decisions for their business.

This session will take a deep dive into current Healthcare challenges businesses are having today, as well as, how to build a Modern Data Architecture using emerging technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL datastores, MPP Data stores and scalable and cost effective cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure and BigStep.

Past infrastructures provided compute, storage and network enabling static enterprise deployments which changed every few years. This talk will analyze the consequences of a world where production SAP and Spark clusters including data can be provisioned in minutes with the push of a button.

What does it mean for the IT architecture of an enterprise? How to stay in control in a super agile world?

70% of organizations say that efforts to transform the business are undermined by internal complexity, including legacy technologies and a lack of collaboration between the business and IT. Business functions can’t wait months for solutions, but IT leaders must to retain oversight to prevent digital projects from spiralling out of control.

Join this interactive webinar to hear how Takeda Pharmaceuticals has used a Digital Business Platform to rapidly build agile applications approved by IT, but owned and customized by the business teams that use them – unlocking benefits that would be attractive to any organization.

Today's storage world would appear to have been divided into three major and mutually exclusive categories: block, file and object storage. Much of the marketing that shapes much of the user demand would appear to suggest that these are three quite distinct animals, and many systems are sold as exclusively either SAN for block, NAS for file or object. And object is often conflated with cloud, a consumption model that can in reality be block, file or object.

But a fixed taxonomy that divides the storage world this way is very limiting, and can be confusing; for instance, when we talk about cloud. How should providers and users buy and consume their storage? Are there other classifications that might help in providing storage solutions to meet specific or more general application needs?

This webcast will explore clustered storage solutions that not only provide multiple end users access to shared storage over a network, but allow the storage itself to be distributed and managed over multiple discrete storage systems. In this webcast, we’ll discuss:
•General principles and specific clustered and distributed systems and the facilities they provide built on the underlying storage
•Better known file systems like NFS, GPFS and Lustre along with a few of the less well known
•How object based systems like S3 have blurred the lines between them and traditional file based solutions.

This webcast should appeal to those interested in exploring some of the different ways of accessing & managing storage, and how that might affect how storage systems are provisioned and consumed. POSIX and other acronyms may be mentioned, but no rocket science beyond a general understanding of the principles of storage will be assumed. Contains no nuts and is suitable for vegans!

As IT environments grow more sophisticated by the day, complexity rises and many CIOs and IT directors lose visibility of their assets and clarity into each asset's performance. The unfortunate result creates IT 'black boxes,' which bring detrimental hazards to enterprise customers when changes are required or things go wrong within interdependent environments. This problem extends beyond the walls of the data center and spans all offices and mobile workers.

According to ESG analysts' Dan Conde and Nik Rouda - "Modern monitoring must be real-time, at scale, and capable of providing visibility wherever IT assets reside. IT Operations Analytics is at the forefront of this monitoring evolution, but understanding how these often diverse technologies fit together and what benefits they deliver to IT can be complex."

Join us for a discussion on Conde & Rouda's seven core criteria for enterprise buyers currently evaluating ITOA and monitoring platforms.

Are you looking for a solution that will allow you to move fast and innovate quickly?

In our session, we will explain how you can implement a flexible and modular architecture that will meet the performance and efficiency requirements of traditional and cloud-native applications. How you can start with a small deployment, and then flexibly scale out to support dynamic workloads and evolving business needs.

From a recent IDC study; we will share with you the business value outcomes of using a Hyper Converged system along with the expected return of investment (ROI)

When applications and desktops are delivered over Citrix, the Citrix administration team becomes the front-line for responding to complaints about slow performance. But more than 60 percent of the time, the root cause of the problem lies outside of the Citrix environment.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how wire data analytics can enable Citrix administrators to not only see end-user experience for ICA sessions, but also dig into application and infrastructure performance to uncover the real reason for slowdowns.

Attendees will learn what software defined storage (SDS) is and is not, as well as the different SDS variations. There will be an in-depth discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of each SDS variation including, but not limited to:

Welcome to this first part of the webcast series, where we’re going to take an irreverent, yet still informative look, at the parts of a storage solution in Data Center architectures. We’re going to start with the very basics – The Naming of the Parts. We’ll break down the entire storage picture and identify the places where most of the confusion falls. Join us in this first webcast – Part Chartreuse – where we’ll learn:

•What an initiator is
•What a target is
•What a storage controller is
•What a RAID is, and what a RAID controller is
•What a Volume Manager is
•What a Storage Stack is

With these fundamental parts, we’ll be able to place them into a context so that you can understand how all these pieces fit together to form a Data Center storage environment.

Oh, and why are the parts named after colors, instead of numbered? Because there is no order to these webcasts. Each is a standalone seminar on understanding some of the elements of storage systems that can help you learn about technology without admitting that you were faking it the whole time! If you are looking for a starting point – the absolute beginning place – start with this one. We’ll be using these terms in all the other presentations.

Load balancers occupy an important position (in the path of application traffic) on the enterprise network. Yet, traditional application delivery controllers (ADCs) are unable to provide meaningful application insights to drive business decisions. Avi Networks’ software-defined architecture for load balancing separates the control plane (management layer) from the data plane (load balancers) to generate continuous insights about applications.

In this 30 minute presentation from Avi Networks, learn how you can get rich analytics and actionable insights into end user experience, application performance, resource utilization, security, and anomalous behavior. See how you can benefit from:

• A “Network DVR” to record and replay traffic events to pinpoint app issues
• At-a-glance view of all virtual services throughout the system
• Real-time visibility into DDoS attacks, SSL versions and ciphers used in transactions
• Health scores that give you immediate feedback on application performance

Cybersecurity has jumped to the top of companies’ risk agenda after a number of high profile data breaches, and other hacks. In an increasingly digitized world, where data resides in the cloud, on mobiles and Internet of Things enabling multitude of connected devices, the threat vectors are multiplying, threatening the firms’ operations and future financial stability.

Organizations with the ability to view cybersecurity breaches as a risk, with associated probabilities and impacts, can strike the right balance between resilience and protection. By bringing together leadership and capabilities across fraud, IT, cybersecurity and operational risk, organizations can connect the dots and manage their GRC program more effectively. Organizations need to employ a proactive approach to review their existing risk management processes, roles and responsibilities with respect to cybersecurity to re-align them into an overall ERM strategy with boardroom backing.

Attend this panel webinar, as we discuss these issues and address ways to develop an evolving GRC program to cope with the growing threat landscape.

Are you a storage admins running business-critical workloads on vSphere? Replacing a traditional storage environment with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions can give you a simpler, more efficient way to manage resources—and eliminate the guesswork that often leads to overprovisioning.

Learn what HCI can do to alleviate some pressure. We’ll discuss how VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 powers HCI with a new operational model for shared storage, including features that complement high-end SANS.

By offloading just one virtualized workload from SAN to Virtual SAN, you can save more expensive SAN or NAS for higher value workloads.

Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash system can support all workloads. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. Join Storage Switzerland and IBM for this live interactive webinar where we bust another flash myth and help you select the right flash for the right workload for the right reasons.

The Enterprise Architecture channel presents the next generation of enterprise IT: recognizing the strategic importance of the data center to make companies more nimble and competitive. These presentations will help demanding IT professionals achieve flexibility, scalability and performance with reduced risk and complexity.